The Dry Cleaner 

Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.

A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.

April, a professional dancer, reluctantly trains a group of girls at a dance school for the dance competition.

The shattering of what we strive to maintain as reality. It is certainly truthful to state that most, if not all, of us have experienced moments of genuine mental stress. Regardless of what might be the cause, the sheer unsettledness, the pressure that weighs upon us is a tangible force that CAN seem insurmountable. However, more often than not, this is only a temporary , one we can come through and simply move on from.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

David Fincher is back in his playpen, with a dark and chilling thriller.